Sunday, July 26, 2015

Stephen King Dishes Out Writing Advice in New Short Story..

Stephen King`s Collection of Short Stories ' The Bazaar of Bad Dreams ' will be hitting shelves on 3 November.The book will feature 20 short stories - a mixture of previously
published and new works.In this new collection he assembles, for the first time, recent stories
that have never been published in a book. He introduces each with a
passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it.

There
are thrilling connections between stories; themes of morality, the
afterlife, guilt, what we would do differently if we could see into the
future or correct the mistakes of the past. “Afterlife” is about a man
who died of colon cancer and keeps reliving the same life, repeating his
mistakes over and over again. Several stories feature characters at the
end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. Other stories
address what happens when someone discovers that he has supernatural
powers—the columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries in
“Obits;” the old judge in “The Dune” who, as a boy, canoed to a deserted
island and saw names written in the sand, the names of people who then
died in freak accidents. In “Morality,” King looks at how a marriage and
two lives fall apart after the wife and husband enter into what seems,
at first, a devil’s pact they can win.

Magnificent, eerie,
utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of King’s finest gifts to
his constant reader—“I made them especially for you,” says King. “Feel
free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have
teeth.”

Stephen King will be giving his fans his first insights into his writing process since his 2000 book 'On Writing'